Specialist, FPGA Verification Engineer

L3Harris • Palm Bay, FL

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Seeking a talented UVM/Design Verification Engineer, able to work in teams and independently, learn quickly and be productive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. This role involves executing and contributing to the FPGA verification plan, architecting UVM test cases, developing reusable components, and defining functional coverage models. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of the FPGA design process and a focus on identifying design issues and corner cases to enhance design robustness. The ability to obtain US government clearance is required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.
• Strong understanding of FPGA design process including requirements generation, preliminary design, peer reviews, detailed design, test plan generation, and integration and test.
• Familiarity with test scoping for complex designs, code coverage, functional coverage, assertions.
• Ability to focus on finding design issues, corner cases and out of box ideas to make designs more robust.
• Ability to obtain US government clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with and understanding of Altera or Xilinx / AMD FPGA architectures
• Experience with high speed serial protocols (PCI Express, SRIO, Ethernet)
• Experience designing 10G Ethernet based Network Interface Designs
• Experience in network protocols including IPv6 and UDP
• Experience with SoC (Kintex UltraScale/UltraScale+, Virtex UltraScale/UltraScale+, Zynq UltraScale)
• Experience with VHDL
• Experience in ASIC / FPGA verification using C/C++ and/or System Verilog
• Experience with DO-254 air worthiness certification
• Experience with building and setting up scalable simulation/verification environments.
• Experience with Vivado and/or Quartus tool suite.
• Proficiency with hardware verification languages: System Verilog, System Verilog Assertions
• Proficiency with Object Oriented Programming Concepts: Inheritance, Polymorphism, etc.
• Proficient in scripting languages: bash/csh, Perl, Python, etc.
• Revision Control Systems: svn, git
• Proficient in Linux Environments
• Constrained Random Verification Experience highly desired.
• Experience with packet-based protocols (PCI Express etc.), Network-centric designs (Ethernet, IP, FC).
• Experience with high speed memory interfaces (DDRx)

Responsibilities

• Execute and contribute to the FPGA verification plan
• Architect UVM test cases for individual blocks or sub blocks within an FPGA
• Develop reusable agents, top level testbench modules and environments
• Define and implement functional coverage model based upon DUT requirements and close code coverage
• Utilize UVM to create drivers, monitors, predictors, and scoreboards based on DUT requirements
• Work independently or with limited guidance to develop test bench solutions

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level